Posts by jwenting

the madness stops when the last mad person (aka homework kiddo) dies a slow, painful, death.

And that won't happen as long as there are idiots who give those homework kiddos what they want.

nah. We use them to make fun of the kiddos instead ;)

their quality control is no better or worse than that of any other company.
It's just that their products are so much more complex than most, which means that it's impossible to find all problems with them in a timeframe that's economically feasible.

I have no problems with IE for websites. As long as you stick to W3C standards IE will work with them well.
Can't say that of the competition.

your teacher can teach just fine. But you're too stupid or lazy to learn.

lord have mercy:?:

I may :D

and where is the worm going to come out?
Just so I can avoid that spot :)

what is a brain?
what is a search engine?

the main prophet for profit is the current prophet of Doom: Al Gore.
There's also a messiah for profit: Obama.

The garbage collector is very smart. There's hardly ever a need to use the provided commands to SUGGEST it runs.
If you think you need to, you almost certainly have an error somewhere in your code causing excessive memory use that prevents garbage collection by holding on to objects unnecessarilly.

and crossposting too... This isn't the only thread this idiot hijacked with his "zent mi zuh koduz"...

There's a lot of information, but we're NOT here to do your homework for you which is what you seem to be looking for.

not interesting.
Just buy an osciloscope, they're cheap.

Ronald Reagan for president!
He's a better president dead than either of the current candidates will ever be alive.

Medicare is a disaster, OSHA is meddling with the rights of people, postal services are far more effecient and cheaper when run as private enterprises.
The drug supply is pretty much guaranteed by the Colombian cartels, the food supply by farmers. Air is as yet free, but I'm certain someone in government is planning to tax it.
DHS and TSA are some of the best examples of why increasing government power is a bad thing.
The government, like the military, should serve the people. Yet in reality it's usually the other way around.

writing code on paper is little different from writing it on a computer when you get used to it.
Maybe I'm getting old but it's how I actually learned programming. We used a mainframe and each student had a grand total of 5 minutes of computer time (CPU time that is) for the entire semester, so we'd better make darn sure that our code worked before we started to type it in.

And that's what it all comes down to, practice. There's no substitute for experience in this, and trying to find shortcuts isn't going to work very well.

As to your first point, I recognise myself in that. You're nervous, in unfamiliar surroundings, and that questionaire can determine your future. Not the best situation to give peak performance, and it usually shows in my results (job interviews are just the same).
But there too experience works. Do a lot of practice exams.
And what also works is to try and be as relaxed as you can for the exam. Don't drink alcohol or eat high-caloric food in the day or days leading up to the exam. Some people suggest yoga to help clear the mind (I've not tried this).
If your path to the exam location suffers from severe traffic jams, try taking public transport. Plan your journey to arrive at least half an hour early, gives you some peace of mind in case of delays.
Drink water before you start, and …

Of course that is true -- In the USA they are called senators, congressmen, and lobbyists.

nope, they're called lawyers.

I've seen many islands, and even been to a few. Which island are you referring to? :)

People were as foolish 5 thousand years ago as they are now. My proof that there is no evolution.

Not sure who it was, but I heard the notion years ago that evolution of a species stops when that species starts changing its environment to suit itself.
Then when that species starts caring for its sick, elderly, and infirm and lets them procreate evolution actually starts reversing itself.

We're in that stage now...

yah. It's no different in customer support. Customers flag every single issue as critical, with the inevitable result that we stop looking at that flag and determine ourselves what's important...

how often do we have to tell you kids to NOT do database access from JSP?

So because you were lazy and didn't start until 3 weeks before the paper is due, and can't be bothered to do more than a cursory search of the web, you want us to write your paper for you...

Do your own homework, kiddo. If you can't you deserve to fail.

Nope. Start with installing MS Office (or another word processor), so you can create your design documents.

how about doing your own research rather than sitting there waiting for others to do it for you?
It's your homework, not ours.

Or monster.com

All you're going to get here are a few homework kiddos who are too lazy to even do basic programming assignments at school let alone to work a fulltime job.

and another lazy kid who can't think for itself asks the exact question a thousand other lazy kids have asked before just in the last few months.

No kiddo, we're not going to do your thinking for you. Show some initiative, show that you can think for yourself and do your own research.
That's why you need to come up with your own project idea. Asking us to do your thinking for you is asking us to help you cheat on your homework, something we're NOT going to do.

It's a KFir CE, next time don't take pictures from Wikipedia :)

I'd say that was pretty accurate, except maybe the unhappy part (though he may be unhappy because of his ban) ;)

And what's wrong with photography? 4 cameras too much for you (and an option on a 5th)? ;)

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                    JFileChooser fileChooser = new JFileChooser(".");
                    int status = fileChooser.showOpenDialog(screen);
                    if (status == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
                        dataFileName.setText(fileChooser.getSelectedFile().
                                             getAbsolutePath());
                    }
                }

Something like this.

yes, anything to which there are no more references will be deleted by the garbage collector at some point. No need to keep track of that yourself and do things like malloc, calloc, and realloc.

and giving an answer that's incorrect too...

Everyone knows the giraffe was created by Ford Prefect after he got bored during a trip to Africa during the stone age :)

are there reputable online colleges? I thought they were all diploma mills where lazy cheating fraudsters can buy real looking diplomas from nonexistent universities.

and almost certainly another hoax. Very similar things make the rounds in the chain letter circuit all the time.

After one look at this planet, any visitor from outer space would say "I WANT TO SEE THE MANAGER!"

Take me to your lizzard!

So you believe that everyone who works at the company ... from the President, to VPs, to CEOs, to CFOs, to managers, to sales personnel, to tech support personnel, to code monkeys, to the janitors, should all be paid equally ... regardless of experience level, education, the stress level of the job, the amount of time they devote to the job, and how much money they make for the company?

It's been tried in that small country they call the USSR...
In fact the situation was worse there, management got paid less there because physical labour was deemed more worthy and politically correct than management.

As a result they of course got only incompetent managers, and all the workers did whatever they could to prevent promotion so went out of their way to not do anything to get noticed (like actually doing anything).

http://www.quest.com/toad-for-oracle/

There you go. Not the cheapest (up to several thousand dollars depending on the functionality you require) but very powerful.

Google said so...

If you're serious about making it a hobby and you want manual control, get a decent DSLR now and don't throw away money on a digicrap (or point and shoot camera as they're called by the politically correct and marketeers) that you'll get disappointed with after a few months and relegate to the function of doorstop.
A highend P&S (what you'd want) will cost you the same as or more than a lowend DSLR.
And while you'll grow out of that too, it'll take a lot longer :)

Start looking at something like the Nikon D40 (or if your budget allows it the D80) or their Canon equivalents, the 400D (or maybe 450D by now) and 40D.
The kitlenses you get with them aren't the greatest, but will serve you well while you're learning the ropes and provide valuable insight into what highend lenses you may want in the future at a very reasonable price.

Nikon's my personal brand of choice, mainly because of their to me superior exterior design and build quality, which to me means better ergonomics and userfriendliness.
But unless and until you've actually handled cameras and lenses of both brands you can't tell for yourself.

One word of advise: never listen to camera salesmen unless you can detect the cowdung coming your way. Most are no more trustworthy than used car salesmen, and will push you towards the purchase that to them means the highest profit margin whether it's …

The current breed of "environmentalists" are purely political creatures who don't care about the environment except as a means to an end, the end being absolute political power.

Personally I like to have clean air (and soil, etc.) as much as the next guy. But I also realise that the REAL environment (the world all around us) is cleaner now than it's been in centuries and that even current environmental regulations are ridiculous in the extreme in that they don't have any basis in scientific fact for the norms and restrictions they impose.
Given the choice between two otherwise equal solutions, I will usually choose the one that causes the least disruption to the world around me, but I won't go out of my way to be "green" in everything (especially with the definition of "green" being dictated not by reality but political correctness as it is these days).

So according to the current breed of environmentalist I'm a heretic, an "enemy of the planet".
According to 1960s environmentalists I'm probably an environmentalist extremist however.

Diesel engines are by now as clean as petrol engines or cleaner. The cancer scare is just that, a scare created by greenies in order to pressure for higher taxes and more draconian anti-car regulation (especially against company cars, which appeals to the far left who can then sell the scheme as "not hitting the poor" as anyone knows only "rich people" get company cars).

The idea is NOT to get electric cars charged from nuclear power stations. Electric cars are another scam from the environmentalist movement.
Get everyone to use electric cars while at the same time trying to get every single means of producing electricity shut down.

In Ur they had neither C nor C++.
Come to think of it they didn't have + either, they used other characters entirely for writing.

J2E doesn't exist. And if it did exist there would be no "best" book for it, but a series of books, each with its own pros and cons.

Once you start down the slippery slope of banning things because they're "bad for morals" or "improper for people to see" there's no end to what someone will end up banning.

Maybe we should ban the Bible? After all, Muslims and atheists are pretty riled up about it...
Or ban the US constitution. Don't want to put ideas about freedom of expression and the right to self defence into peoples' heads when we're banning things we consider bad for them...
And of course ban opposition political parties. They're obviously wrong, and their propaganda corrupts peoples' minds into thinking improper thoughts.

do you mean Java the language or Java the platform?

Java the language is smaller than the JSE (or Java the platform) which consists of the language + the standard libraries + the runtime environment + optionally the compiler and tools.

JSE is the entire platform, standard edition.
JEE is a set of tools and libraries built on top of that which add "enterprise" capabilities like application servers, distributed transaction handling, etc. etc.

and oh, get into the habbit of always using packages for everything.
It may not be required by the language spec (an omission which by many is considered a major historical flaw in the language) but it's good practice and many application frameworks and libraries expect all classes to be in a package.
Many editors in fact will enforce it.

because the vast majority of people who aren't spammers are entirely against spam, and don't want anything to do with it.
They certainly aren't going to spam forums (and email, usenet, etc.) with spam messages in their signatures.
Adding spam to their signatures would make them outcasts, and rightly so.

Anyone selling a service like what you're proposing makes itself (such people are subhuman, therefore not to be called he or she, only it) an outcast automatically.

THE most influential game of all time must be the original Pong.

For RTS games, the most influential ever is Total Annihillation. It redefined the genre when it was released in 1997 (I believe it was, maybe late 1996) and set the standard to which RTS games are measured to this day.

wrong forum. This is the C++ forum, not the C+= forum!

Kyoto will have NO effect on the "climate" whatsoever with or without the US.

US CO2 emissions (which is what Kyoto is all about and which are utterly pointless when it comes to "the climate") are DOWN and have been going down for several years now despite (or more likely because of, given what's happening in countries which did sign up) the US not signing on to the economic suicide pact that's Kyoto.

Kyoto will cripple economies right at the time when they could do so much to reduce polution. That's because only economies that are strong can do anything to reduce polution and Kyoto is designed (that's its entire reason for being) to destroy economies.
If energy prices go up dramatically (as they are in Europe for example) the cost of both production and consumption explodes. Travel becomes next to impossible because noone (except rich environmentalists who make hundreds of billions from selling "carbon credits") can afford to do it anymore.
Tourism dries up, which is THE driving factor in many areas.
People once again have a choice to either build poluting industries or no industries because they don't have the funds to build clean industries.
And that's the real purpose of Kyoto, not "the environment" but reducing the western world to 3rd world status.

In the meantime the "climate" changes however it bloody well likes to, without giving any lipservice to what Al Gore thinks it should do.
It's been …

hmm, why do you post a picture of a very small nuclear explosion when talking about a big one?

Now THIS is a BIG nuclear explosion (Ivy Mike, 12MT) ;)